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The strident tone of the politician’s speech upset half of the audience.strident = unpleasantly forceful
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The protesters’ strident chants could be heard from blocks away.strident = forceful or loud and harsh
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The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle. (source)strident = unpleasantly forceful
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—to turn into some pert-mouthed, strident angry-girl. (source)
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The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before. (source)
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"Where did you sleep last night?" she demanded in the strident, accusing voice she reserved for slaves. (source)
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At once strident and flirtatious, she is a little bit drunk. (source)strident = forceful or loud and harsh
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His shoulders went stiff with surprise; Clary heard the bark of a familiar, stridently angry female voice, and a moment later Isabelle and Maryse Lightwood pushed past Luke and strode into the room, followed by the gray, menacing figure of the Inquisitor. (source)stridently = loud and harsh
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His voice was rising to a horrible pitch of impassioned stridency.† (source)
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Their squabbling, their stridence drowned memory; that tireless tossing of their bodies, their whirring gestures, jerky antics stitched a fluctuant, tough, ever-renewing veil between himself and terror.† (source)
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"Our team has taken nine shots and made three—they've taken two shots and made one," she told them, her voice sharp and strident. (source)strident = unpleasantly forceful
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As he spoke, Seth howled stridently outside the tent.† (source)
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On her end, Mommy had no model for raising us other than the experience of her own Orthodox Jewish family, which despite the seeming flaws-an unbending nature, a stridency, a focus on money, a deep distrust of all outsiders, not to mention her father's tyranny-represented the best and worst of the immigrant mentality: hard work, no nonsense, quest for excellence, distrust of authority figures, and a deep belief in God and education.† (source)
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With the result that for several days when twilight came-it fell much quicker at this time of the year-the streets were almost empty, and silent but for the long-drawn stridence of the wind.† (source)
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The telescreen had changed over to strident military music. (source)strident = forceful or loud and harsh
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BRADY (Red-faced, his larynx taut, roaring stridently) As they would look to the mountains whence cometh our strength.† (source)
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